Kosmos

Culture, travel, fashion and culinary delights: the Kosmos pages of Lufthansa Magazin bring you interesting and useful tidbits from around the world

Ship ahoy!

American sculptor Nancy Rubins has created a giant bouquet of flowers out of 2000 boats and other vessels. She calls it “Big Edge” and it stands in Las Vegas – in the middle of the hot, dusty Mojave Desert.

Win a carefree trip for two

You are mother and daughter, aunt and nephew, father and son or grandmother and grandchild and you like going away together? Now you have the chance to win yourselves a generation weekend at Swissôtel Zürich or Berlin – exclusively for readers of the Lufthansa Magazin online – by writing us a short email telling us why you are the perfect travel duo.

Prize: two nights, 1x in a single room, 1x in the kids/teens room, breakfast included, one trip each in Zurich and in Berlin. Write and tell us which of the two cities you would like to visit.

Conditions of entry: one participant must be at least 27 years old, the other no more than 17 (on date of receipt of your email).

You must be at least 18 years old to enter the competition. The final date for entries is 31.11.2017. The winners will be picked from the best entries by the Lufthansa editorial team and notified by email. All Swissôtel, Territory, and Gruner + Jahr employees are expressly excluded from participating. The prizes may not be paid out in cash. The winners will be drawn at random. The organizer’s decision is final.

Labyrinthine home

Rooms that sprawl into each other, delicate arches, doors and stairs that lead nowhere. The Spanish sculptor Xavier Corberó connected eight old buildings near Barcelona to form a single, maze-like house, and added extensions to create a brilliantly confusing masterpiece of stone, glass and concrete.